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July 29, 2005

This is brought to you via Talkr, an RSS text-to-speech app I found through Nevon's recommendation. I'll soon be adding my favourite blogs to my Talkr podcatcher so that I can listen to heaps of robo-voice action on my drive home!

Radio 1 is doing a podcasting trial. Breakfast sho DJ Chris Moyles announced this yesterday morning, in a ver dumbed down way, but he's now regularly mentioning podcasting on his show! Good one Chris! More on BBC's podcasting trial here. The first Radio 1 podcast will be available this evening. Get Chris's show here - with some stuff on his podcast in the fifth box down.

July 25, 2005

Virtual Earth and Google Maps both do nice things like show where your IP address is (although Virtual Earth just showed the general southern England region when I tried the IP address locator, so I'm not overcome with excitement) but these new mapping sites are strangely useless for various simple tasks that some might say maps are more commonly used for.

For example, Virtual Earth has no roads marked in the UK! And although Google Maps has roads marked on it, they decided not to include motorway exits. So if I ever have to use an online map, I go back to good old Multimap.co.uk. It does really fancy things, like... um... show you how to get places.

I think that the new mapping sites were designed for people that don't leave their PCs!

July 14, 2005

Great review of the TED conference at Oxford Uni, that's going on this week. In a piece titled "Time to switch off and slow down", BBC's Kevin Anderson reports on how Carl Honore delivered a speech warning us about our "roadrunner culture". Interesting read.